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Trump staffers kick New York Times reporter out of Iowa event

By HADAS GOLD

01/15/2016 02:43 PM EST

Donald Trump's campaign kicked a New York Times reporter out of an event in Iowa on Friday.

The reporter, Trip Gabriel, was asked to leave by Trump staff members and a local police officer while at least 20 other reporters were allowed to remain at the event at a Pizza Ranch in Waukee, Gabriel wrote in an account posted on the Times website.

“It’s a private event, you have to go,’’ the officer said, according to Gabriel, who had been issued a press pass for an earlier Trump event on Friday.

Gabriel pointed to an article published in the Times on Wednesday about Trump's Iowa operation. The Times also came up several times in Thursday's Republican primary debate, with Trump at one point saying the paper is "always wrong" after being questioned about a statement he made to the Times about tariffs. The Times published audio of the exchange on Friday.

It's not the first time Trump has barred a media outlet from an event. The campaign has either removed from events or withheld press passes for journalists from BuzzFeed, Fusion, The Des Moines Register and The Huffington Post.

A spokesperson for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.